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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
ahmad-zuhd:1221 – ʿAbdullāh > Abū Bakr > Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī > Zāʾidah > ʿĀṣim > Shaqīq > ʿAbdullāh And Ladhikr Allāh Akbar al-ʿNkbwt 45

[Machine] The remembrance of Allah by the servant is greater than the remembrance of the servant for Allah.  

الزهد لأحمد:١٢٢١ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو بَكْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا حُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ زَائِدَةَ عَنْ عَاصِمٍ عَنْ شَقِيقٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ {وَلَذِكْرُ اللَّهِ أَكْبَرُ} [العنكبوت 45] قَالَ

ذِكْرُ اللَّهِ الْعَبْدَ أَكْبَرُ مِنْ ذِكْرِ الْعَبْدِ لِلَّهِ ﷻ  

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ahmad-zuhd:1928 – ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] "The remembrance of Allah is better than the remembrance of men."  

الزهد لأحمد:١٩٢٨ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ وَجَدْتُ فِي كِتَابِ بِشْرِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ بِخَطِّ يَدِهِ قَالَ ذُكِرَ عِنْدَ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ خُثَيْمٍ رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ

«ذِكْرُ اللَّهِ ﷻ خَيْرٌ مِنْ ذِكْرِ الرِّجَالِ»